Welcome to the ancient North, once the cradle of culture and peace, but is now corrupted by magic and inhabited by nasty bandits sowing destruction in airships. Choose to be a vicious Buccaneer or an infamous Viking and take a glider to the skies. Your goal is to drop enemy vessels and secure dominance of the ancient North.

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Reviews

"Team-based Air Buccaneers is all about manning a slow, lumbering battle-balloon, but it manages to be a lot more tense, exciting and funny than that might sound."
80/100 – PC Gamer

“There’s depth that I never expected when I first started playing, and, more importantly, it’s immensely fun.”
7.5/10 – Destructoid

About This Game

Welcome to the ancient North, once the cradle of culture and peace, but is now corrupted by magic and inhabited by nasty bandits sowing destruction in airships.

Choose to be a vicious Buccaneer or an infamous Viking and take a glider to the skies. Your goal is to drop enemy vessels and secure dominance of the ancient North. Fire cannons, help others, board enemy ships or be the captain – whatever it takes to get your enemies out of the way. The success, as well as the bitter defeat, is solely dependent on how well you co-operate with your crew mates.

Finding the right kind of battle strategy is not self-evident in the merciless winds and twisted magic of the North...

Key Features

Multiplayer FPS for fans of co-op action

Intense air battles: airship armadas fighting in berserk frenzy

Heavy emphasis on teamwork. Solo players, time to team up!

Board enemy ships and take them over!

Four different types of ships: Battleship, Flying Fortress, Cog and Kamikaze

It's hard to give airbuccaneers a fair review. It really is. Why? Because as of writing, both servers up right now have 0/32 players.

I really doubt anyone will even read this review, only because this is a game time forgot. I bought it when it first came out on steam, and since nothing has changed since other than going free to play (with no bonus for people who previously bought, something that would anger most people but I had my fun with it so I feel it's only fair) all I can do is reminisce on previous times I've played this game in 2013 when it wasn't horribly dead.

I feel like AirBuccaneers is a game that if it had a thriving playerbase it wouldn't be at "mixed" of 60% positive ratings. It's rough around the edges- but not in a way that negatively impacts the game. The game works like most air combat simulators, you fly around in airships and shoot different types of weapons at the enemy while the pilot tries to steer you out of the way of projectiles incoming so you don't horribly crash and burn to your pitiful death. What makes AirBuccaneers different than guns of icarus? Ground combat. It's a lie to say you can walk to your enemies base and kill them via one on one fistfights as the ground is covered in poisonous mushrooms, but in AirBuccaneers you spawn in your home base and can choose what ship to board either by walking onto a docked one or using an hangglider to get to one in the air. But how does this equate into ground combat? You have free movement and aren't locked onto your ship, meaning it's a legitimate strategy to either dismount your hangglider in mid air and jump onto the enemy's ship or to jump from your own and engage in proper swashbuckling- or just take their helm and drive their ship into a cliff. You can also use one of the diverse ship types like the Kamikaze ship that instantly destroys anything when touched (but it horrendously underarmoured) or the massive, immobile fort that has a huge cannon on it but can only move via air maneuver which takes a long time to recharge.

Another great thing about airbuccaneers is the perks and flaws system. I found this very unique at the time, and it still sticks out to me as one of the only multiplayer games that has something like this. There are very overpowered perks in each level progression tree that you can pick to make yourself better suited to one role, but there are negatives in that tree (or other trees) you must choose from as well. This would be just OK if the perks were something generic like "move 10% faster" or "repair 20% slower", but they're all mostly fun stuff like "you're drunk and your screen is tilting", "you don't take fall damage", "you have an eyepatch over half of your screen", and "your gun works like russian roulette and has a random chance of killing you". I didn't get that far in the perk tree as this game died pretty quickly, but it was the main thing that kept me playing and I really wish another multiplayer game would pick up something similar.

So all that positive said, do I recommend AirBuccaneers? Hell yes, if you can find players. It's free to play now, and is a great arcadey game with an interesting character creation system. I just really wish it wasn't dead.

Awesome gameplay and stuff, been playing it since beta for some time and after it came out on Steam, but devs are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and multiplayer servers are dead now. Don't get me wrong, they're running but noone plays this game anymore.Also, those who buyed the game earlier got nothing for it after it became ftp. And same thing about beta testers. Btw game is dead for about 2-3 years and there's still no interesting updates to bring people back. Just think of it a little bit. What does it make devs look like? Take your time.And I think there's no reason for you guys to install this game even for free.

Really rare game that is a dusty gem hidden in the free to play population is none to 3-4 players but can hold massive multiplayer matches on a variety of servers hopefully this review will inspire some people to download this insanely good yet unknown game. Free to Play just download it and try it out there is no regrets

Tired of the same old shooters? Then AirBuccaneers might be something for you.

AirBuccaneers is a slow paced Action FPS (yes I said slow...). You pick one of the two teams (Buccaneers vs. Vikings), afterwards you will spawn on land. From there you're able to walk towards one of the few airships and take controll of them. There are a few different airships for you to choose some are big, some are small. Just to be clear; you are able to fight on land but this rarely happens.

After you've chosen one of the Airships and up in the air, it's time to search the enemy. You can walk freely on your airship and switch between steering and controlling the cannons. When steering you are able to boost your ship into any direction you feel like, after each boost you will have to wait a while to use it again.

Because the game is slow paced, strategy and timing are the most important aspects. Flying the airships is slow, even aiming/firing your cannons is slow. If you are too close to an enemy ship they are able to jump on your ship, kill you and hijack your ship, which can be pretty fun. There are various weapons for you to use aswell like melee weapons and grenades.

If you've played for a while you're able to level up your character, pick different perks and also gain new clothes/armor.

Originally being a Unreal Tournament 2k4 mod, AirBuccaneers feels and plays like a mod. The controlls are a little bit clunky and the graphics are not up to date anymore, it did not bother me much personally though.

Overall, AirBuccaneers is a refreshing and original game, something you've probably never played before. Will you play this game for 4 hours straight? Probably not, but it's a great game to return to every once in a while. At the time of writing, I found out the game is Free To Play, so there is no reason not to try it. I would've recommended it even if there was a price tag, just try it!

If your looking for a game where you pilot/fire cannons, rockets, and flamethrowers at your enemies from primitive blimps with your friends than this is the game for you. Sadly there arent very many people playing these days so AirBuccaneers only gets played when i have friends online playing it.